The Casino rescue plan validated by the Paris commercial court. The group employing around 50,000 people in France entered into an accelerated safeguard procedure at the end of October.

“The road will still be long, with difficult times and will require a lot of effort from everyone, but I have no doubt of the success of our mission,” observed the businessman in a press release from the consortium of buyers also counting the billionaire Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière and the Attestor fund.